Bonnie Rutledge

Bonnie Rutledge
Pen names	Cousin Bonnie, Cousin Bons
Official website

Bonnie Rutledge is an author of Forever Knight fan fiction and filk. She kept several Forever Knight-related websites. In addition to Bon's Forever Knight Fan Fiction Wasteland (an archive of her own stories), she also kept faction sites for the Die-Hards (Why I Love Forever Knight), the Perks (The Good, the Bad and the Perky), and the Nunkies Anonymous.

Bonnie has played in several Forever Knight Wars with the Nunkies Anonymous faction. Most notoriously, she was abducted in one war by the Vaqueras, resulting in a long story arc in which she believed she had been turned into a llama.

For an alphabetical list of Forever Knight-related material by this author, please see Category:Works by Bonnie Rutledge.

<snip>How long have you been a FK fan? How did you get started?</snip>

First Season, Crimetime After Primetime. I remember it very clearly, July 1992, as I'd adopted my first cat, Vivian Carmencita, from the animal shelter the week before. I was winding down from packing to move into my first apartment, flipping through channels while snuggling with the kitten. I'd came across FK just after the opening credits of "Dark Knight, Pt. 1," so I didn't realize the series premise. I thought I'd stumbled across a regular detective show, and I was interested on those grounds. By the time Nick got back to the loft and started drinking blood from his jade cup, it'd blown my mind. I was hooked. The first time I saw the opening credits, I recognized James D. Parriott's name - when I was a kid, I'd adored his short-lived "Voyagers!" series. About the time "Baby, Baby" aired, I was starting to check out the Internet. I was curious if there was anyone else who liked FK as much as I did, and I quickly found FORKNI-L, making the answer an enthusiastic, "YES!!!"

<snip>Have you ever met anyone off the FK lists?</snip>

Yes. High Priestess Jules, Nancy K., Third Cousin Patt, Libs, Caren, Christy, Shele, Gayle H., Laurie MercBard, NunkMommy Annie, VaqMadre Tracy Sue, June W., and more.

<snip>How and where has FK changed your life, and why?</snip>

Well, I'm pretty sure there would have been less llama in my life without the FK fandom. Call it a hunch. :) More importantly, there are dozens of delightful people and pets I would have never exchanged e-mails with or met if I hadn't watched FK.

<waves>

— From a "Getting to know us" thread on FORKNI-L (1 January 2006)

Fan Fiction

The following stories are listed chronologically by the date posted or published.

1996

• "Would You Sell A Car To This Man?"[1][2][3] (23 September 1996)
• "Blindness: Forays Into Divia's Diary"[4][5][6] (8 October)
• "The Spirit And The Dust"[7][8][9] (12 December) - the Clare series, No. 1
• "Yes, Natalie... There *Is* a Kitty Claws"[10][11] (17 December 1996)

1997

• "The Unselfish Partner"[12][13][14] (21 January) - the Clare series, No. 2
• "Quiet, Cold Heart"[15][16][17] (7 February) - written for the Unsuiteds Challenge
• "Thankless Child":[18] pt. 1,[19] 2[20] (20 February) - the Clare series
• "A Matter of Territory"[21][22] (6 April) - s/k/a "Sidney Lambert - A Matter of Territory"[23]
• "This Perfect Carousel"[24][25] (8 April)
• "Better Than Chocolate"[26][27][28] (25 May) - written with Jules Stafford
• "Two Thousand Midnights"[29][30] (June) - appeared in Shadows and Roses
• "Shades Of Evil"[31][32][33] (26 July) - by internal chronology, the first story in the Clare series
• "August Heat"[34] (24 August) - written with Patt Elmore
• "An Uncommon Soul"[35][36][37] (2 October)
• "Halloween: Good Little Boys"[38][39][40] (31 October)
• "The Judge"[41]

1998

• "Alive, Undead"[42] (8 April)
• "Miracle On Queen Street"[43] (8 April) - written with Patt Elmore
• "No Man Is A Fantasy Island"[44][45][46] (10 April)
• "Mary Sue Gets Petted"[47][48][49] (27 June)
• "How Nunkies Got His Groove Back"[50][51][52][53] (15 November)
• "You Know Who's Fault"[54][55] (17 November)
• "Les Pauvres Enfants"[56][57]
• "Unnatural Selection"[58][59]

2000

• "Who Wants To Be A Vampire?"[60][61] - a crossover with Who Wants To Be A Millionaire?
• "Outlast"[62] - a crossover with Survivor
• "Undeath And The City"[63][64] - a crossover with Sex And The City
• "Survivors"[65][66] (1998-2000) - the Clare series, a sequel to "Thankless Child"

2001

• "Cold Nose, Warm Heart"[67] - a sequel to "Good Little Boys"
• "Llama Diary Arc From War 11 - Abridged)"[68] - some of Bonnie's war posts from War 11
• "This Never Happened: A Semi-True Story"[69] - a Conversion Day story, sequel to the llama war arc
• "Post-Hoc"[70]
• "Words and Meanings"[71][72]
• "Yes, Natalie... There *Is* A Kitty Claws"[73] - by Vivian, Sabu, Eastway, and Emily Rutledge as pantomimed to Bonnie Rutledge

2002

• "Pity The Child"[74]
• "Kyoo No Tema Wa Kore Desu...!"[75][76] - a crossover with Iron Chef
• "The Right Of Way"[77]
• "October Hypothetic"[78] - Season of Unreason I
• "Flirty November"[79] - - Season of Unreason II
• "December Of Doom"[80] - Season of Unreason III - written with Bonnie Pardoe

(no date)

• "A Birthday Burnoose"[81]
• "The LaCroix Examination"[82] - a/k/a "The Cross Examination" - the full title is "The LaCroix Examination or, What Would You Eat On A Date With Nunkies?"
• "The Macintosh: A Nunkies Fantasy"[83]
• "Missing Nunkies"[84]
• "The Tax Table Scene"[85]
• "There's Drool in My Beer Over You"[86]

Filk

• "One Night In Pompeii"[87] (1998)
• "Nick Just Wants To Drink Blood"[88][89] (15 March 2001)
• "Fanfic"[90] (16 March 2001)

External Links

• Bon's Forever Knight Fan Fiction Wasteland - Bonnie Rutledge's personal website
• Bonnie's faction archives:
  • The Good, the Bad and the Perky
  • Why I Love Forever Knight
  • Nunkies Anonymous